Actually, the requirements lists are on-line but the booklets themselves are not. This is why this young man is so determined to get this done. The national offic eis providing those they have in PDF format to us but that is less than a third of them.
Thanks for your help.----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel Romey" <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 12:54 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming
Hey Dan, I haven't done my Work and the Glory books either, I have to actually get them / borrow them from someone, so it's taking a while.Very neat project. I'm wondering, aren't the merit badge booklets online inpdf format? If so, I wonder if we could crosscheck the pdf file with the file that needs to be validated. Reason why I ask is because I've helped with the teaching of the chemistry merit badge, and I seem to rememberhaving some form of electronic copy. Perhaps I scanned the thing, I have noidea :). All the best, and I'd be happy to help with this. Ner -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Beaver Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:00 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming Hi all,First I want to apologize for not getting the next "The Work and the Glory"book done. I also want to apologize for not getting the Financial PeaceRevisited by Dave Ramsey completed. I have had major time shortages due towork and family.Now, I had talked some time ago about doing the meritbadge booklets. One ofthe scouts in the troop I work with has decided to get them ready for submition to Bookshare as his Eagle project. We have now started and I amhaving to teach a dozen or more folks how to do the clean up and preparationof the files. I will start submitting the files to Bookshare over the next week or 2. Iwould appreciate any effort the community could spend on these. I'd like tobe able to report to the scout on the progress of the submitions. Each of these files will be easy validations of 50 to 150 pages. The booklets are smaller page sizes than most regular books so there is lesstext involved. I will be doing my own validation before submitting them sothey will be very clean.We are all rather excited about this young man's project. It will have fargreater impact than most Eagle projects. I understand that another scout has done his Eagle project by submittingbooks to Bookshare. However, this is the first time the meritbadge bookletshave been submitted to Bookshare other than the one I submitted myself a fewmonths ago. To tell the truth, I had to go through a good deal of effort to get this approved by the Boy Scout national office. I was rather surprised at theresistance I found. However, once we got past the front line of the office we have found that the rest of the staff there are bending over backwards tosee that we have all the materials we need. Thanks for any effort you can spend on this. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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